Steemdrive: Proof of Successful Crowdfunded Billboard Flight in Chicago, USA!
Thanks to a great campaign with the @steemdrive Steemit billboard initiative and the support of the Steemit based blockchain social community, America’s first Steemit blockchain crowdfunded billboard is now presented live in Chicago, Illinois!
A Few Words From Our Chicago Liaison
My name is Nolan Jacobson and I am a liaison for the @steemdrive initiative. The purpose of the @steemdrive project is to aid in spreading the word about the fantastic social media platform, Steemit.
The @steemdrive campaign aims to spread the word about Steemit globally, by primarily placing billboards and eventually other forms of advertising all across the world. All are real world advertising and are fully crowdfunded from a daily blockchain pool of rewards that the users vote on to decide the allocation thereof.
The @steemdrive initiative is humbled that so many users believe in our cause and are helping upvote to make this “high-in-the-sky” project become a reality!
To make it all happen, we worked with Susy from LAMAR Advertising Company. She was of great help and assisted us with the best selection and locations of billboards available at the time on which to advertise Steemit.
LAMAR Advertising Company was founded in 1902 and is one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in North America, with more than 325,000 displays across the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. LAMAR advertising is one of the few billboard agencies that accept credit cards for such "big ticket" purchases; which made it very easy for us to make an international transaction and in future we should be able to make use of a bitcoin Mastercard or Visa debit card to make payment through the same payment gateway. For more information on LAMAR, please visit: http://www.lamar.com
Audiovisual Presentation of American Billboard Campaign
Digital Billboard - DuPage County, Chicago, Illinois
This DIGITAL bulletin gets prime exposure to traffic headed to O'Hare Airport. This affluent section of DuPage County is considered to be the fastest growing in the United States. Only 50 feet from the toll-way, this sign has excellent exposure to nearly 60,000 daily commuters to Metro-Chicago from the upscale northern suburbs.
Panel #: 70082
Location: TRISTATE (I-294) E/S .5 MI N/O NORTH
Lat/Long: 41.9136/-87.9193
Panel Size: 20' 0" x 60' 0"
Weekly Impressions: 552637 per spot (based on 18+ years of data)
Thank you Nolan, for your assistance as liaison ambassador for your city of Chicago (USA) and for playing your part in helping the @steemdrive campaign bring Steemit to the world!
Being one of the youngest Steemit users, shows that age is not a factor and the social platform is meant for people of all ages and walks of life. The secret to success on Steemit, is passion and a love of networking with other talented people on the platform.
I also wish to thank fellow Steemian, @kyriacos, who has become a good friend of mine on steemit.chat and is a very talented graphic artist. He recently created a logo for the @robinhoodwhale community curation project and did the fantastic artwork for the current rendition of the Steemit.life billboard. He has also created a logo for the @steemdrive project which will be unveiled in a separate blog post for your kind support of his work, (in the meantime see if you can spot the @steemdrive logo in a sneaky location on one of the above photos.)
Thank you to all of you wonderful supporters and helping to make dreams become a reality!
Sincerely,
@steemdrive in the Media:
Campaign Partners:
Witness @smooth.witness (campaign supporter)
Witness @delegate.lafona (liaison and campaign supporter)
Witness @liondani (campaign supporter)
@steemdrive Supports the Following Initiatives:
@kyriacos (graphic artist)
Terms and Conditions:
Steem Dollar payout funds raised from this Steemit post shall be allocated to any billboard site or @steemdrive public project where funds may be required in and paid in accordance with the general campaign terms and conditions.
The domain steemit.life on the artwork points to the steemdrive referral link for campaign tracking by Steemit, Inc, otherwise not possible if steemit.com was advertised.
All images are either royalty free, public domain, supplied by the billboard agencies or paid for by the campaign or liaison, credits will appear beneath any other image sources.
Direct Donations Welcome:
Direct Donations Received:
@cm-steem donated $2.50 thank you so much! Second time donating!
Remember to UPVOTE, FOLLOW and SHARE on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others, in support of the @steemdrive campaign!
I love the billboard because it's so clear and concise. In 1 seconds everyone understands what Steemit is.
Yes for sure, we had a great designer... @kyriacos and he did a great job.
Very clean, love it
All for one and one for all! Namaste :)
Greetings and thank you @eric-boucher!
For some reason, I just love the words on that billboard!!! Oh wait... :) lol Nice Man!
Loool steemit-life go baby!!!
LOL!!! Keep it going man!
Heys Guys, great job. I do have a couple of suggestions or topics to think about. I have and continue to work in SEM/ SEO, and I have experience with branding and just human nature in general when it comes to tech. having worked in the field of tech. support before. Most people will see " steemit.com" just because .COM has been branded so well with domain names on the Net. It is still good though, branding is branding, but for some reason I am just partial to STEEMIT.COM for marketing to the public knowing of course that all tracking of sources goes out the window.
2ndly, I also notice that steemit.life redirects to the steemit.com Home Page. Just something to throw out there, but maybe a special landing page for those new eyes coming to steemit.com. I notice the **Learn More" button on the home page links to steem.io . At this point for me I am ambivalent as to whether I like that users land on the steemit.com Home Page and can see some Pay Outs on some the articles. I also wonder if it wouldn't be best to steer away from that "Get Rich from posting idea" that is created by that visual and rather send them to a page that more explains the long term goals of this "New Paradigm" in Social Media. Maybe something that will guide them gradually into the Steem community and its ideals.
Just some thoughts. Great Job Again!!
full $teem ahead!
@streetstyle
Hi @streetstyle I like your input, much appreciated. We eventually would like steemit.life to have its own landing page, perhaps with links out to steemit.io as well as other frontends that may be developed in other languages. The landing page could have useful onboarding training info for new users, @ash, @marketingmonk and a few others have some good tutorials. The campaign is still very new, once a bit more established we can become more sophisticated.
I also like the idea of taming down the "Get Rich" concept, the Steemit.com signup page has the slogon, "Your voice is worth something" which could be good also. Not sure however if a bit long for the billboard and the time one has to read the text. Thanks for your support and ideas!
@Steemdrive
Glad to join the initiative guys. Keep it up!
Pleased to be working with you. Hope to see you help us with a billboard in Cyprus in the near future.
Awesome stuff! Great to see the first one in America up and running.
Thanks for your support @cryptoiskey always awesome when our liaisons pitch in to support the project some more. Looking forward to your New Zealand proof of flight.
coming soon my man:)
Wow
More Steemians on the Way!!
That's the idea!
Nice work now done! Congratulations!
Namaste!
Thank you for your effort to promote steemit. :)
Thank you for your support and thanks!
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I like the billboard but the video is really bad quality. The camera shake on the billboard footage is terrible. Advertising two other companies first, doesn't seem like a good idea. The resolution of the lettering and first photo is very low. I have invested quite a large amount in a platform that I believe in. Please get someone to do a good video and don't paste low quality graphics. It gives a very bad impression.
Hi @gct the video was provided by the advertising agency like that, they did us a favour, they usually only take static photos. Thanks for pointing that out. in future, we will try our best to get better videos. The other companies were shown so you can see how the billboard scrolls, I did debate whether to include that, but will bear that in mind for future. We will address all issues in the next campaign.
If anyone wishes to edit videos for our future campaigns please let me know.
OK Good. You can contact me for video editing if you wish.
I've transferred my Steem back to Poloniex over an hour ago and there is no sign of it. Should I be concerned?
This bot is great, I had no idea these other blogs had written about the @steemdrive campaign. I have voted both the posts with backlinks to encourage others to mention our posts in their blog.